3. "Hereditary burial"! That's interesting. It does make even more sense of his son being buried there. But since Peter was from Poberow, Pomerania (today Poland), I wonder if any previous Keiths were buried there, or if he was the first to purchase this site.
I suspect the later. For a contemporary parallel, see Caroline Fredersdorf starting an "Erbbegräbnis" in the chapel at Zernikow by burying Fredersdorf there, with herself following suit decades later. Now as I told you back when, her initials intertwined with Fredersdorf's indicate she always meant it for the two of them, and since they had no children, it's an unusual use for an Erbbegräbnis. Though I think her daughter from husband No.3, the one who was Achim von Arnim's mother, is also there. Anyway, what I'm getting at is that if you were a well off Frederician citizen, you clearly could purchase an Erbbegräbnis.
While updating it, I realized that Fritz arrived (with his brothers) in Berlin on January 4. :/
Hate to say it, but that might have been a good thing. If he had been in Berlin already, and NOT gone to the funeral, it would have felt like a final put down to Peter's family. Otoh, I bet Lehndorff was present, and some of Peter's colleagues of the Academy.
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Re: Peter Keith in the archives!
Date: 2023-01-28 06:11 am (UTC)I suspect the later. For a contemporary parallel, see Caroline Fredersdorf starting an "Erbbegräbnis" in the chapel at Zernikow by burying Fredersdorf there, with herself following suit decades later. Now as I told you back when, her initials intertwined with Fredersdorf's indicate she always meant it for the two of them, and since they had no children, it's an unusual use for an Erbbegräbnis. Though I think her daughter from husband No.3, the one who was Achim von Arnim's mother, is also there. Anyway, what I'm getting at is that if you were a well off Frederician citizen, you clearly could purchase an Erbbegräbnis.
While updating it, I realized that Fritz arrived (with his brothers) in Berlin on January 4. :/
Hate to say it, but that might have been a good thing. If he had been in Berlin already, and NOT gone to the funeral, it would have felt like a final put down to Peter's family. Otoh, I bet Lehndorff was present, and some of Peter's colleagues of the Academy.